Grrrrrr - Finding raw ingredients

weeblex
weeblex Posts: 412 Member
edited December 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Just need to gripe. We had mashed potatoes last night, not in a tub, not frozen, not as a powder from.....

(Insert Dramatic Music)

A Potato!

It took me forever to actually find just potato and add a Tbsp of spread to it. Everything insisted that my potatoes had 500mg of sodium in them because they were store bought.

Is there a way to differentiate between ingredients and store bought stuff on a food list?

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  • stomachflu
    stomachflu Posts: 134 Member
    Bump

    and it really annoys me that it says my hard boiled egg has sodium..now unless the chicken was eating salt..I don't think so!
  • RunnerFive
    RunnerFive Posts: 67 Member
    Add 'raw' to your search and it should show up. Maybe even be more specific and add the kind of potatoe it is (like red or russet)
  • SelkieDiver
    SelkieDiver Posts: 260 Member
    Bump

    and it really annoys me that it says my hard boiled egg has sodium..now unless the chicken was eating salt..I don't think so!

    eggs do have naturally occurring sodium in them.
  • stomachflu
    stomachflu Posts: 134 Member
    Bump

    and it really annoys me that it says my hard boiled egg has sodium..now unless the chicken was eating salt..I don't think so!

    eggs do have naturally occurring sodium in them.

    Well bugger..disregard my comment then.
  • ElizabethRoad
    ElizabethRoad Posts: 5,138 Member
    Mashed potatoes normally contain salt. If yours don't, you can create a recipe or input the individual ingredients. Search "raw potato" and there are lots of entries:

    "Potatoes - Russet, flesh and skin, raw"
    "*Generic - Potato, White Raw No Skin, Uncooked"
    "*Generic - Potato - Medium White Raw"
  • LinaBo
    LinaBo Posts: 342 Member
    Yeah, add "raw", or try finding it on NutritionData first, then copying the description from there into the MFP search (they're mostly the same, for the non-user created entries).

    I wish MFP had a sorting option that puts all of the original, non-user database entries right at the top of the list. Sorting by relevance sort of does this, but not entirely.
  • droogievesch
    droogievesch Posts: 202
    I tried inputting a recipe and typed in "flour" I got so many "flour tortilla" results it was incredibly annoying. Turns out the magic thing to type is "all purpose flour". I definitely understand your frustration, and I'm happy to see I'm not the only person who loathes trying to find basic ingredients.
  • meshashesha2012
    meshashesha2012 Posts: 8,329 Member
    what really annoys me is fruit. i put in strawberries and have to hunt for the fruit past strawberry ice cream, strawberry soda, strawberry jam, etc.

    luckily MFP keeps a list of your favorite items. once you find it (and providing you eat it for the same meal) it should be in your list so you wont need to search the dbase
  • ElizabethRoad
    ElizabethRoad Posts: 5,138 Member
    what really annoys me is fruit. i put in strawberries and have to hunt for the fruit past strawberry ice cream, strawberry soda, strawberry jam, etc.

    luckily MFP keeps a list of your favorite items. once you find it (and providing you eat it for the same meal) it should be in your list so you wont need to search the dbase
    It doesn't have to be in the same meal. You just have to click the drop-down menu to change it.
  • Pandorian
    Pandorian Posts: 2,055 Member
    They definitely could use a better "search" searching for bacon shouldn't bring up a "bacon n egger, A&W" as the first result... or a bacon cheeseburger or... etc. As a plain ol' food item itself the results should be the first to come up and then the items that happen to contain bacon should be later. This would of course require further details at the time of creating the food item to the database, but it'd be more useful.
  • weeblex
    weeblex Posts: 412 Member
    Today's struggle was salad, small salad, iceberg lettuce, cucumber, a few croutons, and yes, all I got was budget restaurant, high sodium results.

    Just had to do it ingredient by ingredient
  • Angylgrrl
    Angylgrrl Posts: 159 Member
    I am glad to see this is not just me. I find that if I happen to know the brand of the item, it helps in finding it in the database. For example, when I was looking for tilapia, instead of just putting in 'tilapia', I searched for the particular brand that I was using (Treasures of the Sea) and found it much easier to locate the right thing.
  • PaleoPath4Lyfe
    PaleoPath4Lyfe Posts: 3,161 Member
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    and it really annoys me that it says my hard boiled egg has sodium..now unless the chicken was eating salt..I don't think so!

    Actually everything you eat (raw, natural, otherwise) has sodium. Granted whole foods are much lower in sodium because it is just the sodium contained in said raw item.

    For instance...........

    Eggs have this much as a raw egg:

    Eggs, in mg
    Egg, whole, small, 47
    Egg, whole, medium, 55
    Egg, whole, large, 63
    Egg, white, large, 55
    Egg, yolk, large, 12
    Egg substitute, 1/4 cup, 115
  • weeblex
    weeblex Posts: 412 Member
    Bump

    and it really annoys me that it says my hard boiled egg has sodium..now unless the chicken was eating salt..I don't think so!

    Actually everything you eat (raw, natural, otherwise) has sodium. Granted whole foods are much lower in sodium because it is just the sodium contained in said raw item.

    For instance...........

    Eggs have this much as a raw egg:

    Eggs, in mg
    Egg, whole, small, 47
    Egg, whole, medium, 55
    Egg, whole, large, 63
    Egg, white, large, 55
    Egg, yolk, large, 12
    Egg substitute, 1/4 cup, 115

    Indeed, but as a rule a few mg not the hundreds or thousands in processed products
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